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CURRICULUM VITAE Royal Skousen Royal Skousen 1 CURRICULUM VITAE Royal Skousen Fundamental Scholarly Discoveries and Academic Accomplishments listed in an addendum first placed online in 2014 plus an additional statement regarding the Book of Mormon Critical Text Project from November 2014 through December 2018 13 May 2020 O in 2017-2020 in progress Royal Skousen Professor of Linguistics and English Language 4037 JFSB Brigham Young University Provo, Utah 84602 [email protected] 801-422-3482 (office, with phone mail) 801-422-0906 (fax) personal born 5 August 1945 in Cleveland, Ohio married to Sirkku Unelma Härkönen, 24 June 1968 7 children 2 education 1963 graduated from Sunset High School, Beaverton, Oregon 1969 BA (major in English, minor in mathematics), Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah 1971 MA (linguistics), University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois 1972 PhD (linguistics), University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois teaching positions 1970-1972 instructor of the introductory and advanced graduate courses in mathematical linguistics, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois 1972-1979 assistant professor of linguistics, University of Texas, Austin, Texas 1979-1981 assistant professor of English and linguistics, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah 1981-1986 associate professor of English and linguistics, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah 1986-2001 professor of English and linguistics, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah O 2001-2018 professor of linguistics and English language, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah 2007-2010 associate chair, department of linguistics and English language, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah O 2018-2020 professor of linguistics, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah visiting positions 1981 linguistics, visiting professor, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, California (linguistic evidence, phonological theory) 1982 linguistics, Fulbright lecturer, University of Tampere, Finland (probabilistic linguistics, phonological theory) 2001 linguistics, research fellow, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands (analogical modeling, quantum computing) 3 consulting 1978-1982 Houghton Mifflin, Boston (grades 1-8 spelling program: 1st edition, 1982; 2nd edition, 1985) 1979-1980 Weidner Communications, Provo, Utah (structure of English) 1984 WordPerfect Corporation, Orem, Utah (first spelling checker for WordPerfect [version 4.0]) 1984-1985 International Telephone and Telegraph, Shelton, Connecticut (probabilistic linguistics and English spelling and pronunciation) 1986 Genealogical Department, LDS Church, Salt Lake City, Utah (spelling of names) 1989 Collins Publishers, Edinburgh, Scotland (British-American vocabulary differences) 1989-1999 LDS Church Scriptures Committee (text of the Book of Mormon) 1992 Novell, Provo, Utah (graphics in technical writing) 2002 American Board for Certification of Teacher Excellence (standards for high school English teachers) 2003 American Diploma Project (knowledge requirements for graduating high school seniors) O 2012- Joseph Smith Papers, lead editor for the three volumes of the Book of Mormon manuscripts (photographs with facsimile transcripts) awards, lectureships, fellowships, and grants 1964 freshman mathematics award, mathematics department, Brigham Young University 1969 first prize, Hart-Larson poetry contest, English department, Brigham Young University (“Shocking Spiel”) 1969-1972 NDEA fellowship, title IV, Department of Linguistics, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign 1974 summer research award, University Research Institute, University of Texas, Austin (acquisition of phonology) 1976-1977 Spencer Foundation, Chicago (probabilistic descriptions of English spelling) 4 1985-1986 James L. Barker lectureship in language and linguistics, College of Humanities, Brigham Young University (linguistically difficult passages in the scriptures) 1999-2000 Karl G. Maeser Research and Creative Arts Award, Brigham Young University 2014 Distinguished Alumnus Award, Department of Linguistics, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign 2016 Mormon History Association, Best Documentary Editing, presented to Royal Skousen and Robin Jensen, editors, for “Joseph Smith Papers, Revelations and Translations, volume 3: Printer’s Manuscript of the Book of Mormon”, published by the Church Historian’s Press, 2015 professional organizations O National Association of Scholars President, Utah Association of Scholars (1999- ) current research interests textual criticism (editor, Book of Mormon critical text project) probabilistic and stochastic approaches to linguistics analogical modeling of language quantum computing natural statistics phonological theory English spelling Finnish morphology left-to-right processing grammars of English English usage history of the book foreign languages Finnish [fluent] German, French [reading knowledge, some speaking] Greek (koine), Latin, Old English, Swedish, Hebrew [reading knowledge] 5 computer languages Perl C/C++ Pascal / Delphi courses taught phonology introduction to linguistics mathematical linguistics [logic and automata theory] phonetics historical linguistics language acquisition history of linguistics English spelling morphology Finnish structure Finnish literature probability and statistics English syntax technical writing structure of English traditional grammar introduction to literature language and literature history of the English language introduction to the English language English usage textual criticism analogical modeling history of the book editorial boards O 1993- Journal of Quantitative Linguistics Associate Editor, 2003- 1987-1997 Computers and the Humanities acted as referee research proposals: National Science Foundation 6 manuscript reviews: Language Oxford University Press Cambridge University Press Prentice-Hall St. Martin’s Press Computers and the Humanities Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies BYU Studies Journal of Quantitative Linguistics Lingua John Benjamins Cognition Acta Linguistica Hungarica Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture Language and Cognition community service related to field The Great Grammar Debate (with Don Norton), English Society, Brigham Young University, January 1989, Provo, Utah participation in international meetings invited participant in symposium on psychological reality of phonological descriptions, Ninth International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, 1979, Copenhagen, Denmark chaired phonology section, Ninth International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, 1979, Copenhagen, Denmark chaired phonology section, Tenth International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, 1983, Utrecht, The Netherlands program committee, International Conference on New Methods in Language Processing, 14-16 September 1994, Centre for Computational Linguistics, University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology, Manchester, United Kingdom program committee, Second International Conference on Quantitative Linguistics, 20-24 September 1994, Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia plenary speaker, First Scandinavian Conference on Finnish Language and Literature, 27 May 1994, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden (plus an hour-long computer demonstration) 7 plenary speaker, Third International Conference on Quantitative Linguistics, 27 August 1997, Helsinki, Finland chaired session, Third International Conference on Quantitative Linguistics, 27 August 1997 Helsinki, Finland dissertations supervised at the University of Texas at Austin James Robert Scott, Morphology in Historical Change, 1975. Leon Franklin Kenman, The Phonetics of Standard Russian Unstressed Vowels together with a Critical Survey of Phonological Interpretations of akanje-ikanje, 1975. Ernesto Baldomero Lombeida-Naranjo, Ecuadorean Highland Quechua Phonology, 1976. Salem Ghazeli, Back Consonants and Backing Co-Articulation in Arabic, 1977. Steven Roy Chandler, The Induction of Linguistic Generalizations, 1979. theses supervised at Brigham Young University Richard T. Stephens, English Usage: Basic Competency Defined, 1980. Judy Wilson, Spelling Difficulty of Paired Suffixes: ant/ent, ance/ence, ancy/ency, able/ible, 1986. Kent Chauncey, Automatic Recognition of Relative Clauses with Missing Relative Pronoun, 1989. Delys Waite Cowles, A Lexical Approach to the Development of Voiced Fricatives in English, 1990. Timothy W. Hiatt, Can Authors Alter their Wordprints: James Joyce's Ulysses, 1993. Jon Nielson, Authorship of the King James Version of The Bible, 1994. Renée Bangerter, Since Joseph Smith's Time: Lexical Semantic Shifts in the Book of Mormon, 1998. Jari J. Vesterinen, Analogical Modeling of Finnish Nominals, 2001. Daniel William Jewell, The Negative Adjectival Prefix in English, 2001. O Michael De Martini, Yea yea, nay nay: Uses of the archaic, biblical yea in the Book of Mormon, 2019 8 PRESENTATIONS [• means that the talk was an invited one, + means that my expenses and/or an honorarium was also paid by the inviters] • 1. “On Finnish Vowel Harmony”, Urbana Conference on Phonology, Department of Linguistics, University of Illinois, 24 April 1971, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois. • 2. “Empirical Restrictions on the Power of Transformational Grammars”, Conference on the Formal Aspects of Cognitive Processes, University of Michigan, 19 March 1972, Ann Arbor, Michigan. 3. “On Capturing Regularities”, Chicago Linguistic Society, 15 April 1972, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois. 4. “The French Verbal System”, Conference on Diachronic Romance Linguistics, 22 April 1972, University of Illinois,
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